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Organizer(s): Erin Bunting, Jane Southworth, Cerian Gibbes, Hannah Herrero This session delves into the transformative impact of GeoAI and Big Data in land system science and remote sensing, aligning with the overarching theme of 'The State of the World'. It focuses on how these innovative technologies have revolutionized our understanding and monitoring of the Earth's surface. High-resolution satellite imagery and extensive data collection offer unprecedented insights into land cover changes, deforestation, and urban growth. By employing advanced GeoAI techniques, including machine and deep learning, we can efficiently process and interpret these vast data sets. This approach enables us to discern intricate patterns and trends in land systems, which were previously elusive with traditional analytical methods. Our session explores global research utilizing GeoAI and Big Data, particularly in sustainable land management and environmental conservation. We showcase how these technologies are redefining land system science and enhancing our understandings of land cover and use dynamics, the interplay between human activities and the environment, and the feedback mechanisms influencing decision-making and management strategies. This session not only invites papers focusing on the applications and challenges of GeoAI but also encourages contributions addressing data ethics and bias concerns within the realm of GeoAI and Big Data. We are particularly interested in discussions around how data requirements and AI approaches might inadvertently contribute to or mitigate the North-South divides, emphasizing the need for responsible and equitable advancements in this rapidly evolving field.

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Organizer(s): Andrea Pacheco, Jan Börner Understanding how humans impact biodiversity - the diversity of life on earth - has become a new frontier in socio-ecological research. On the one hand, a wealth of new metrics and methods to monitor biodiversity change have become available in the past several years (e.g., global databases such as Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), or global indicators such as the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII)). On the other hand, different research efforts are currently taking advantage of such developments to study the human impacts on biodiversity change or loss. In particular, because habitat loss is the primary driver of biodiversity loss, several recent studies aim to quantify and characterize agriculture-driven impacts from land-use change using a variety of approaches. These include life cycle analyses (LCA) or multi-regional input-output models (MRIOs) and the use of footprinting metrics, modelled biodiversity products, as well as other quasi-experimental set-ups that focus on impacts on specific species, or even pairing multidimensional biodiversity indicators with socioeconomic drivers.This session aims to spotlight recent, innovative research on these agriculture-driven impacts on biodiversity, specifically across the tropics, where biodiversity is highest. This may include improvements in LCAs or MRIOs, as well as impact assessments using new, multidimensional biodiversity indicators. We aim to discuss the questions: What do these new metrics tell us about agriculture-driven impacts on biodiversity? And, how do these impacts differ from what we know of land-use and land-cover studies? Moreover, we aim to discuss the causal implications of such featured approaches, as policies or interventions (e.g., the European deforestation regulation) may err in targeting footprints rather than the underlying mechanisms driving these. Overall, we hope to foster a discussion that moves beyond land-use/land-cover change towards deeper understanding of human-nature impacts, and the action points that can transform this relationship in the future.

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Organizer(s): Qiangyi Yu, Liangzhi You, Qiong Hu Agricultural land systems are influenced by the interaction between natural elements and human activities. Natural features such as soil, water, topography, and native vegetation serve as the basis for these land systems and have a significant impact on the feasibility of agricultural practices in specific regions. Moreover, human-made infrastructure, such as ridges, roads, canals, and other artificial facilities, not only directly modify the natural features but also alter the structure and functionality of land systems. Farmland infrastructure is present in both small-scale family farms and large industrial agricultural operations and exhibits a wide range of design and complexity. It can vary from simple, manually-operated structures to advanced, high-tech automated systems. Understanding the type, level, and quality of farmland infrastructure is crucial, as it shapes and provides feedback on the health and sustainability of agricultural land systems. This session aims to focus on key topics such as observation, simulation, and evaluation of farmland infrastructure and its impacts on agricultural land systems, while also fostering exchange and discussion within the GLP community.

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Organizer(s): Burak Güneralp, Jasper van Vliet, Yuyu Zhou, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr As unprecedented challenges such as climate change, urbanization, and resource depletion continue to unfold, understanding the potential trajectories of land use and land cover becomes essential for fostering resilience, equity, and adaptation in the face of an uncertain future. Land-change modeling offers huge potential to contribute to developing a robust understanding of social, economic, and environmental causes and consequences of land change. However, much of this potential remain to be fulfilled. For example, the methods and approaches developed in other fields that utilize simulation and modeling (from Operations Research to Climatology to Physics to Health Care) such model docking or multi-model ensembles have still not been adopted in land-change modeling or their adoption has been very limited. This session will focus on latest advances in theory and practice of land-change modeling. We invite contributions on novel conceptualizations and methods on land-change modeling, including but not limited to, accuracy assessment, recognition of uncertainty, hybrid modeling, representation of decision-making, and stakeholder involvement as well as applied studies that demonstrate the potential of land-change modeling for informing real-world decision-making and policy. We also invite contributions that offer constructive critiques of the field of land-change modeling. Such critiques provide much needed self-reflection that can help overcome existing deficiencies and outstanding challenges in advancing the field and enhancing its relevance to real-world challenges. The session will conclude with a summary of key takeaways that will be collected from the participants through a short online questionnaire.

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Organizer(s): María Perevochtchikova, Andrea Muñoz Barriga, Ricardo Castro, Luisa Delgado, Gloria Yaneth Florez Yepes, Víctor H. Marín Peri-urban spaces offer various ecosystem services (ES) related to the ecosystem's functioning (e.g., provision, regulation, support, and cultural ES). However, the use and exploitation of these spaces are influenced by the decisions made by social actors at various organizational levels. These dynamics of change expand to various spatial and temporal scales, even in broad rural-urban gradients. Therefore, it is important to consider peri-urban territories as socio-ecological systems (SES) that are complex, evolving, and adaptive. These territories change over time and space under the influence of various actors and internal and external pressure factors. To study them effectively, an inter and transdisciplinary SES approach is essential. This approach integrates the views from social and ecological sciences to describe, analyze, and study the complexities that arise in these territories. By doing so, we can contribute to understanding current and past socio-ecological problems and reflect on future sustainability, particularly in relation to ES. To achieve this, we propose to bring together interventions that narrate various research experiences developed in Latin American countries under the inter and transdisciplinary perspective. This idea reinforces the argument that an integrated vision is needed to understand the complexity of these territories, articulating views from different disciplines and collaborating with other sectors of society and knowledge. It is also crucial to understand the thematic diversity of these territories, such as cultural tourism, ecotourism, agroforestry systems, green infrastructure, etc., analytically, theoretically, and methodologically for its study. Furthermore, we must strengthen international and inter-institutional collaboration networks to achieve this. This session aims to reflect on ways to achieve sustainability or its multiple forms in peri-urban territories by understanding ES and their socio-ecological dynamics.

Research Session

Organizer(s): Laila Berning, Andrea Pacheco Figueroa Forest risk-commodity (FRC) policies can be evaluated by political science, economics, and forecast modeling. In this session, we bring together these different disciplines to holistically explain the development, design, implementation, enforcement, and impacts of key FRC policies in the forest and agricultural sector across the demand-side (e.g., European Union Timber Regulation, Forest Law Enforcement Governance and Trade Regulation & Voluntary Partnership Agreements, EU Regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR), private certification) and supply-side (e.g., Brazil’s Forest Code, Amazon soy moratorium). In this cross-disciplinary session, we aim to discuss why many policy evaluations find that FRC policies have limited-to-no effectiveness in achieving explicitly stated policy goals (e.g., zero deforestation). We seek to explore whether such evaluations may misunderstand or miss key aspects of the policy design, such as secondary policy goals.This interdisciplinary session combines three key interrelated analytical perspectives focusing on:1. Policy design: explaining why and how FRC policies and governance mechanisms are created, designed, adopted, implemented, and enforced by drawing on regulatory policy change theories and empirical qualitative data collection and analyses (e.g., interviews, policy document analyses).2. Policy evaluation: showcasing ex-post impact evaluations of mandatory due diligence policies that help us understand on-the-ground impacts and effectiveness of FRC policies and governance mechanisms (e.g., reduced deforestation, leakage).3. Expected policy contribution towards long-term goals: demonstrating how ex-ante modeling can help bridge agenda setting (through long-term pathways) and policy design for international supply chain regulations, drawing on qualitative (e.g., EUDR-related impact narratives and discourses) and quantitative data and analysis (e.g., econometric estimates of potential leakage effects).We aim to bring these three perspectives together in our final discussion. Hence, we welcome other presentations on any of the above three topics, but particularly those showing examples of supply-side policy evaluations not yet represented by our confirmed speakers (e.g., from Indonesia).

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Organizer(s): Carole Dalin, Kimberly Carlson, James Gerber Humanity faces the grand challenge of providing an affordable and nutritious food supply to a growing and more affluent population in a sustainable and resilient manner. Agri-food system actors - including policy makers, corporations, farmers, traders, and consumers - must meet this challenge while considering potentially conflicting priorities, such as environmental sustainability (including water, biodiversity and climate), economic viability, nutritional health, cultural acceptance, equity, and resilience to shocks. Understanding this growing complexity - which can involve global supply chains and difficult socio-environmental tradeoffs - will be essential for achieving sustainable and resilient agri-food systems. Given the extensive effects of food systems on people and the planet, identifying feasible solutions to transform current food system practices offers promise for realizing widespread socio-environmental benefits and for achieving multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals. In this session, we welcome research from all aspects (e.g., food supply chains, food environments, socio-cultural factors) and dimensions (e.g., rural livelihoods, human health and nutrition, trade, natural resource use, biodiversity loss & climate change) of sustainable food systems, with a focus on identifying and testing solutions to transform food systems. This scope includes studies employing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches to assess a range of outcomes from agri-food system solutions across multiple spatial and temporal scales, and the trade-offs or synergies that may emerge between them.

Research Session

Organizer(s): Sieg Snapp This session is an exploration of realizing diversification of crops, agricultural systems for sustainable land use through partnerships with communities, public, private sector and civil society. Transformation towards sustainable agrifood systems is underway in specific geolocalities, involving a wide range of partners and approaches as seen from differing perspectives of communities in Nicaragua, Mexico and Malawi. Presentations followed by discussion engaging the audience will explore emerging lessons, challenges and lock in traps as well as both niche and broad based transformative drivers.

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Land use policies are key to effectively transform land systems to reconcile interactive biodiversity, food and climate goals, framed as thematic research frontier in GLP’s Science Plan. However, tailoring of land use policies, i.e. fitting policy measures/strategies to specific contexts, faces a two-fold challenge. On the one hand, policies need to be generally applicable. These characteristics are sometimes enshrined in guiding principles. On the other hand, policies need to be adjustable to specific social-ecological conditions and actor groups. Overcoming this two-fold challenge is crucial to increase the currently low effectiveness of existing land use policies that often remain uniformly defined and implemented in different jurisdictions.We aim to foster transformative change by catalysing knowledge for targeted policy design and implementation harnessing existing transformation options and levers. We envisage a dialogue on strengths and limitations of recent approaches and cutting-edge experience of policy tailoring in the fields of agriculture, forestry and other types of land use using a range of methodologies, reflections on various actors’ perceptions, expectations and transformative visions as well as guiding principles in policy design and implementation. In particular, we invite talks concerning the following questions:· What are promising analytical approaches that can inform regional and intra-regional tailoring of policy measures/strategies?· Which conceptual frameworks and guiding principles are promising to support policy tailoring at regional to global scales?· Which perspectives does archetype analysis offer to prioritise policy options in context-sensitive ways?· How can land use innovations developed and tested in living labs, farmer field schools and other forms of stakeholder-centred initiatives inform policy tailoring?We cordially invite scientists, practitioners and policymakers to join this session. This session will serve as an initial meeting place for members of a potential new GLP Working Group proposed to focus on tailor-made land use policies for effective land system transformation.

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Research Session

Organizer(s): Ole Mertz, Thilde Bech Bruun, Sharachchandra Lele With the increasing focus on sustainable management of forests and using forested landscapes as carbon sinks to combat climate change, there has been a renewed research and political interest in the role that shifting cultivation may (or may not) play in securing sustainable management of complex mosaic landscapes. Moreover, despite decades of research on shifting cultivation, a rift between scientific communities studying shifting cultivation, development practitioners, and policy-makers remains about whether shifting cultivation has a role for safe-guarding livelihoods of local and indigenous people living at forest-agriculture frontiers. In order to address these challenges, and especially bringing the scientific evidence on shifting cultivation more into the development and policy spheres, this session aims at bringing the large amounts of research in the past decades together in unbiased analyses that take stock of the persistent presence of shifting cultivation in many parts of the tropics. In some contexts it might be a highly relevant solution to improving sustainable environments and livelihoods as the alternatives are considerably worse. In other contexts, shifting cultivation may indeed play a key role in environmental degradation and maintaining poverty. We therefore invite papers that take non-normative stances on how shifting cultivation may (or may not) contribute to the global sustainable development agendas.

Research Session

Deforestation continues to be a significant issue across tropical regions, impacting both nature and communities. Past land-system-science research has mainly focused on understanding land-use and land-cover changes (LUCC) to identify the drivers and consequences of deforestation. This has spurred policies and commitments to prevent deforestation, thus knowledge on LUCC remains a cornerstone of conservation policy. However, most existing research is based on reconstructing land-cover changes over time - for example forest loss - and not variables that inherently describe land-use processes - for example fast vs. slow moving deforestation frontiers. In the era of previously unseen availability of satellite data and continuously increasing computation capabilities, we are now at a point where satellite data and derived land-cover products can be better used to directly develop indicators and variables describing land-use processes, such as agricultural frontier progress or land degradation, ultimately contributing to a better understanding underlying processes of land-use dynamics. In this session, we welcome presentations and discussions on the latest advancements, limitations, and ways forward in developing variables and indicators describing land use processes, using both remote-sensing based data but also ancillary data sources at the local, regional, and global scale. We further welcome presentations that link novel variables and indicators of land use processes to impacts on social-ecological systems, for example carbon stocks, biodiversity, but also rural communities, including Indigenous peoples. The session will provide a forum for discussing methodological and thematic advancements with respect to land change processes, particularly tropical deforestation frontiers, supporting theoretical advancements of the topic.

Research Session

The construction of the Tren Maya (Maya train) by the Mexican government has been a great point of contention for scholars and communities in the Yucatan region. Major points of disagreement are around conservation and agricultural land use, and its effects on land tenure, and the livelihoods of local communities. Studying the effects of the conflict of conservation and development on land systems is not new, however current public policy on land use (e.g. the productive federal program Sembrando Vida), large capital investment on infrastructure development and the shrinking of conservation practices has resulted in changes in land tenure and increased forest degradation and deforestation. This session brings together scholars addressing issues around the effects of the Tren Maya and public policy on current land cover change and tenure systems. We are interested in papers that: 1) investigate the effect of Sembrando Vida and Tren Maya on land use change; 2) assess the changes in public policy in the region; and 3) discuss the multiple effects and feedbacks of public policy, infrastructure development and conservation on how territory is shaped and affect current land tenure systems, land management, livelihoods, and social relationships.

Research Session

Organizer(s): Gillian Galford, Marcia Macedo, Stephanie Spera, Brendan Fisher South America’s Cerrado biome is a socio-ecological treasure at risk. Spanning 2 million km2, this tropical savanna ecosystem supports 5% of the world’s biodiversity and a rich array of traditional livelihoods - from quilombola communities to subsistence use by Indigenous Peoples and other traditional communities who have occupied the land for generations. Today, this biodiversity hotspot is also a hotspot of change due to growing pressures for agricultural development, conflicts over land and water, and afforestation projects anticipating global demand for carbon offsets.Like most tropical savannas, the Cerrado lacks the international attention and legal protections afforded to neighboring forests. There is growing evidence that efforts to protect carbon-rich Amazon forests have inadvertently accelerated land clearing in the Cerrado, triggering rapid land-use changes that replaced over 50% of the native vegetation with croplands and pastures. Such indirect land-use changes are fueled by invisible processes, including a global bias towards forests and a hyper-focus on carbon as the main currency for establishing ecological value. Nevertheless, the drivers underlying hot spots and hot moments of Cerrado land-use change are poorly understood and merit further examination.This session will convene global experts to discuss drivers and long-term impacts of change in the Cerrado, including complex teleconnections to global markets, local socioeconomic conditions and decision-making, and the historical context underpinning today’s conservation policies. We welcome contributions exploring how land-use dynamics vary across scale, as well as the implications of these changes for local livelihoods and future climate risk. Through a careful examination of the past and current dynamics in the Cerrado, this session aims to enhance understanding and identify pathways for building socio-ecological resilience in the face of ongoing land use and climate changes.

Research Session

Organizer(s): Burak Güneralp, Jasper van Vliet, Yuyu Zhou, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr As unprecedented challenges such as climate change, urbanization, and resource depletion continue to unfold, understanding the potential trajectories of land use and land cover becomes essential for fostering resilience, equity, and adaptation in the face of an uncertain future. Land-change modeling offers huge potential to contribute to developing a robust understanding of social, economic, and environmental causes and consequences of land change. However, much of this potential remain to be fulfilled. For example, the methods and approaches developed in other fields that utilize simulation and modeling (from Operations Research to Climatology to Physics to Health Care) such model docking or multi-model ensembles have still not been adopted in land-change modeling or their adoption has been very limited. This session will focus on latest advances in theory and practice of land-change modeling. We invite contributions on novel conceptualizations and methods on land-change modeling, including but not limited to, accuracy assessment, recognition of uncertainty, hybrid modeling, representation of decision-making, and stakeholder involvement as well as applied studies that demonstrate the potential of land-change modeling for informing real-world decision-making and policy. We also invite contributions that offer constructive critiques of the field of land-change modeling. Such critiques provide much needed self-reflection that can help overcome existing deficiencies and outstanding challenges in advancing the field and enhancing its relevance to real-world challenges. The session will conclude with a summary of key takeaways that will be collected from the participants through a short online questionnaire.

Research Session

Questions of how to transform towards sustainable and just land use systems are characterised by a high degree of complexity, uncertainties, different interests, values and conflicts. In order to address these sustainability challenges in an appropriate manner, integrative approaches are needed that link the plurality of different types of knowledge and perspectives. Against this background, transdisciplinary and transformative research approaches (e.g. in the form of living/real world labs) have become central to sustainability and land use sciences. The inherent processes of co-production and co-design have been proposed not only as a mechanism to come to an improved system understanding by jointly defining problems and common goals with diverse actors from science and practice. By fostering mutual learning and negotiation processes for reimagining alternative futures and collaboratively identifying most promising transformation pathways, they also enable the co-design of just and socially acceptable solutions. However, the processes of co-production of land use systems continue to be challenging and multifaceted, and there is great interest in further developing and refining them methodologically and conceptually.The aim of this session is to advance the understanding and critical reflection of how co-production approaches can be implemented and contribute to tackle multiple claims on land by diverse stakeholders in a multi-scale, cross-scale or tele-coupled context. A particular focus will be on the embedding of co-production processes in research designs and different settings, innovative methods of co-production and co-design, and the various roles and responsibilities of actors and their knowledge.We invite contributions from different geographical regions to present and learn from the diversity of co-production and co-design approaches of land systems. This session is organized by the GLP Working Group ‘Co-Production of Sustainable Land Systems“.

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Organizer(s): Maria Piquer- Rodríguez, Lucía Zarbá, Martha Bonilla-Moheno Maps of social and ecological processes can serve as a tool for sustainability planning in complex regions. They aim at integrating the intertwined relations between humans and the environment. Land systems encompass the social-ecological characteristics of regions and thus serve as a framework for understanding the interactions to inform transformative change. However, current efforts to spatially characterize social-ecological regions face important challenges in terms of coherent data availability and a balanced dimensionality (i.e., the social, economic, and environmental dimension). In this session, we will show results from recent efforts to spatially characterize social and ecological land systems (SELS) and identify the relevant components that define SELS typologies within Latin America.

Research Session

Organizer(s): Julie Gwendolin Zaehringer, Armando Valdés-Velásquez, Pablo Negret, Gabriela Wiederkehr-Guerra, Svitlana Lavrenciuc, This session explores the underexamined yet crucial role of buffer zones around protected areas worldwide, shedding light on their potential for sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation, and enhanced human livelihoods. As they are meant to buffer against threats to ecosystems meant to be protected in the core zone, they are frontier landscapes of critical importance. Despite their prevalence, evaluation of these zones in terms of their impacts and potentials have not received sufficient attention in the conservation science discourse.Currently, challenges arise from overlapping land access rights and undefined responsibilities for buffer zone management, raising questions about inclusivity and effectiveness. Land users living in buffer zones need to be empowered to become stewards of these zones. Furthermore, optimal combinations and spatial configuration of diverse land uses to enhance synergies in multifunctional landscapes need to be found.Buffer zones represent an untapped arena for experimenting with transformative relationships between nature and people. This session delves into approaches for managing buffer zones in tropical forest landscapes of Peru, Madagascar, Laos, and beyond and explores avenues to enhance inclusivity and management efficacy. Crucially, it examines transformative land use interventions within these zones, aiming to unlock their potential as social-ecological living labs. The envisioned transformation involves establishing a mutually beneficial coexistence between nature and communities, addressing both ecological and human needs.Furthermore, the session explores the collaborative management of buffer zones, emphasizing their limited spatial extent as an advantage for fostering partnerships among diverse stakeholders. A collaborative approach not only consolidates sustainability transformations but also positions buffer zones as models for development, offering insights applicable to other regions. Moreover, effective collaboration around buffer zones holds promise for reducing territorial conflicts around protected areas. Through examining buffer zones as social-ecological land systems, the session contributes to the broader dialogue on conservation and sustainable development.

Research Session

Organizer(s): Rachel Carmenta, Julie Zähringer Significant changes are urgently needed to preserve tropical forest landscapes where biocultural diversity remains high. Current conservation efforts often focus on in-situ site-level interventions that tend also to introduce ‘alternative’ livelihoods or income sources. The site-level focus and emphasis on the cash-poor risks perpetuating the misunderstanding that local poverty is the leading driver of biodiversity decline. Thinking that exonerates and under-emphasizes those (albeit distant) capitalized actors who are the greater conservation problem. This approach is ill-equipped to deliver either effective, or equitable conservation. We draw on recent proposals for Connected Conservation (Carmenta et al, 2023, Biol Cons) a conservation model that engages new tools to tackle distant wealth, in combination with on-the-ground conservation action to empower the knowledges, value systems, rights and cultural diversity of biodiversity stewards. Connected Conservation identifies, and works to diminish, three dominant flows from centers of wealth that disproportionately harm biodiversity. It works to enhance and amplify the three positive, yet presently marginalized flows that stem from biocultural centers. Ideally connected conservation sees actions operating in concert across scales (i.e. from biocultural centres to centres of wealth) to resolve key biodiversity challenges. This session draws on these ideas, bringing together experience of conservation action working to disrupt and diminish (in centres of wealth), with those that enhance and amplify (at the site-level). The session begins with an overview of the Connected Conservation model, before hearing from speakers that focus on actions at very different scales but each with a focus on mitigating two leading challenges: mega-fire and mining. We will consider the needs, opportunities and barriers to interweaving additional actions, and connecting them across scales. This will lead to a deepened understanding of how a Connected Conservation approach can bring about transformative change in conservation practices and generate effective and equitable conservation action.

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Organizer(s): Holly Gibbs, Kim Carlson, Robert Heilmayr Expansion of agricultural production for international and large-scale domestic markets has led to massive deforestation and degradation across the tropics. A wide range of public and private sector policies and initiatives have sought to harness these supply chains to address this conservation crisis, but deforestation rates remain persistently high. Nevertheless, there is hope that renewed international pressure, including through the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation, could generate transformative change in rates and patterns of agricultural expansion in rainforest production zones and frontiers. In this session, we will explore the potential pathways for markets and international and domestic policy levers to transform tropical land systems. We will reflect on the last two decades of supply chain initiatives and consider their outcomes across commodities and geographies to identify lessons learned and anticipate their future effects*. We welcome multiple analytical approaches including economic analysis, field surveys, and data science to deeply interrogate how the impacts and role of supply chain initiatives have been influenced by the social, economic, political, institutional, and behavioral conditions, and what this means for the future. *I think it could be fantastic to consider splitting this session into two sessions with one focused on “the State of the World” for these interventions and a second one focused on “Enabling Transformative Change”.

Break / Networking

Research Session

Rural-urban transitions and other processes may lead to the 'underuse' or complete abandonment of farmlands and settlements, and which become a widespread global phenomenon. Farmland and settlement abandonment can significantly impact the environment, landscape resilience, and societal well-being. However, the driving mechanisms of abandonment, the emergence of novel ecosystems, and landscape resilience in regions susceptible to abandonment remain unclear. Further, theories, methods, and toolboxes for measuring abandonment of farmlands are insufficient, which hampers understanding abandonment and its outcomes. Therefore, the session aims to highlight progress and discuss existing challenges in defining and measuring a great diversity of land transitions associated with abandonment, such as low-intensity, underused, or fully abandoned urban and rural landscapes. Presentations are welcome on:· Conceptualizing land transition processes associated with incomplete and complete abandonment, such as secondary forest regrowth and evolving novel ecosystems, as well as landscape resilience.· Coupling and decoupling of abandoned urban and rural landscapes.· Research methods and toolboxes to measure underuse, abandonment, and post-agricultural transitions of landscapes.· Development of theories and evaluation of the driving mechanisms of landscape change, telecoupling, and policy responses.· Implications of such transitions on the environment and societal well-being.· Emerging land uses in the post-abandonment period.This research session directly contributes to the activities of the Global Land Programme's "Agricultural Land Abandonment as a Global Land-Use Change Phenomenon." https://www.land-abandonment.org/

Research Session

Organizer(s): Ole Mertz, Thilde Bech Bruun, Sharachchandra Lele With the increasing focus on sustainable management of forests and using forested landscapes as carbon sinks to combat climate change, there has been a renewed research and political interest in the role that shifting cultivation may (or may not) play in securing sustainable management of complex mosaic landscapes. Moreover, despite decades of research on shifting cultivation, a rift between scientific communities studying shifting cultivation, development practitioners, and policy-makers remains about whether shifting cultivation has a role for safe-guarding livelihoods of local and indigenous people living at forest-agriculture frontiers. In order to address these challenges, and especially bringing the scientific evidence on shifting cultivation more into the development and policy spheres, this session aims at bringing the large amounts of research in the past decades together in unbiased analyses that take stock of the persistent presence of shifting cultivation in many parts of the tropics. In some contexts it might be a highly relevant solution to improving sustainable environments and livelihoods as the alternatives are considerably worse. In other contexts, shifting cultivation may indeed play a key role in environmental degradation and maintaining poverty. We therefore invite papers that take non-normative stances on how shifting cultivation may (or may not) contribute to the global sustainable development agendas.

Research Session

Deforestation continues to be a significant issue across tropical regions, impacting both nature and communities. Past land-system-science research has mainly focused on understanding land-use and land-cover changes (LUCC) to identify the drivers and consequences of deforestation. This has spurred policies and commitments to prevent deforestation, thus knowledge on LUCC remains a cornerstone of conservation policy. However, most existing research is based on reconstructing land-cover changes over time - for example forest loss - and not variables that inherently describe land-use processes - for example fast vs. slow moving deforestation frontiers. In the era of previously unseen availability of satellite data and continuously increasing computation capabilities, we are now at a point where satellite data and derived land-cover products can be better used to directly develop indicators and variables describing land-use processes, such as agricultural frontier progress or land degradation, ultimately contributing to a better understanding underlying processes of land-use dynamics. In this session, we welcome presentations and discussions on the latest advancements, limitations, and ways forward in developing variables and indicators describing land use processes, using both remote-sensing based data but also ancillary data sources at the local, regional, and global scale. We further welcome presentations that link novel variables and indicators of land use processes to impacts on social-ecological systems, for example carbon stocks, biodiversity, but also rural communities, including Indigenous peoples. The session will provide a forum for discussing methodological and thematic advancements with respect to land change processes, particularly tropical deforestation frontiers, supporting theoretical advancements of the topic.

Research Session

Organizer(s): Gillian Galford, Marcia Macedo, Stephanie Spera, Brendan Fisher South America’s Cerrado biome is a socio-ecological treasure at risk. Spanning 2 million km2, this tropical savanna ecosystem supports 5% of the world’s biodiversity and a rich array of traditional livelihoods - from quilombola communities to subsistence use by Indigenous Peoples and other traditional communities who have occupied the land for generations. Today, this biodiversity hotspot is also a hotspot of change due to growing pressures for agricultural development, conflicts over land and water, and afforestation projects anticipating global demand for carbon offsets.Like most tropical savannas, the Cerrado lacks the international attention and legal protections afforded to neighboring forests. There is growing evidence that efforts to protect carbon-rich Amazon forests have inadvertently accelerated land clearing in the Cerrado, triggering rapid land-use changes that replaced over 50% of the native vegetation with croplands and pastures. Such indirect land-use changes are fueled by invisible processes, including a global bias towards forests and a hyper-focus on carbon as the main currency for establishing ecological value. Nevertheless, the drivers underlying hot spots and hot moments of Cerrado land-use change are poorly understood and merit further examination.This session will convene global experts to discuss drivers and long-term impacts of change in the Cerrado, including complex teleconnections to global markets, local socioeconomic conditions and decision-making, and the historical context underpinning today’s conservation policies. We welcome contributions exploring how land-use dynamics vary across scale, as well as the implications of these changes for local livelihoods and future climate risk. Through a careful examination of the past and current dynamics in the Cerrado, this session aims to enhance understanding and identify pathways for building socio-ecological resilience in the face of ongoing land use and climate changes.

Research Session

Mountain socio-ecological systems are very distinctive in biophysical and social characteristics. Land use, for example, is characterized by little mechanized agriculture, expanding recreational and conservation uses, and specific types of urbanization. Provision and regulation of water for both highland and lowland populations, high biodiversity and endemism, and elevation-dependent climate change add to the complexities and particular needs for research and monitoring, which must include an integrated and interdisciplinary perspective. The Andean Network of Socio-ecological Observatories (ROSA), a collaborative initiative started in 2023, seeks to integrate long-term monitoring efforts to identify, characterize, and quantify processes that influence the dynamics of mountain socio-ecosystems. ROSA aims to gather, systematize, and integrate existing monitoring efforts, facilitate efficient sharing of monitoring, management experiences, and conceptual approaches, and connect the knowledge derived from integrated monitoring to decision-making processes and the sustainable management of Andean SES. The objectives of this session are: 1) to share experiences of integrating biophysical and social monitoring systems into land systems observatories in mountains; 2) To understand reasons for success and failure of integrated monitoring systems in other regions of the world; and 3) to discuss a common agenda for the co-design of monitoring strategies and integration of knowledge between key stakeholders ( academia, decision-makers, civil society). For this, we propose a research presentation session including the following topics: 1) Description, creation and current status of the ROSA initiative, 2) Advances in key ROSA’s nodal observatories, 3) Participatory monitoring: place-based socioecological and transdisciplinary research. Experiences and insights from Latin America; 4) Synthesis of mountain social-ecological systems monitoring in Asia, Africa, and Europe; insights on infrastructure, data sharing, capacities, and governance, 5) open for public invitation. Based on the presentations and discussion we will produce a policy brief of good/successful practices for the integration of socio-ecological monitoring with land system observatories in mountains.

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The search for new land investment frontiers, population growth, urbanization, and development aid are creating transformative transitions such as land consolidation, fragmentation, agroecology, alternative agriculture, and new on- and off-farm job opportunities, shaping agricultural and agrifood systems in the Global South. Monitoring these transitions at the field or household level, where livelihoods and land use decisions are made, remains challenging due to scarce data representing emerging trends. Recent advancements in Earth Observation (EO) data, machine learning, targeted case studies, and detailed temporal micro-data are opening new horizons in identifying bright hotspots and exploring land use transitions related to agricultural (mal)development. High-resolution EO data holds immense potential to understand land consolidation, fragmentation, and land use changes. Combined with microdata and machine learning, EO data can deepen understanding of agrarian development trajectories and land use policies. Targeted case studies can illuminate questions difficult to address due to inadequate representation in national surveys, shedding light on emerging trends. In this light, we invite original works exploring methodological advancements and applications under the following themes: 1) Methodological advancements in EO and deep learning to map, monitor, and measure farm and field sizes, distribution of smallholder, medium- or large-scale agriculture, agricultural production, crop types, household assets, poverty, or proxies for such indicators. 2) Applications of EO data, micro-data, targeted case studies, or their integration to assess emerging patterns within rapidly changing land and agrifood systems, encompassing topics such as agricultural productivity, agroecology, food security, water security, labor trends, and poverty dynamics. The session intends to unravel the state and the trajectories of global agricultural land and agrifood systems, highlighting existing challenges and pathways forward.

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Coastal landscapes are at the forefront of experiencing the effects of climate change. Globally, 2.15 billion people live in near-coastal zones, making these landscapes particularly susceptible to climate-induced hazards and long-term land-use changes. Exacerbated by sea-level rise, land subsidence, and coastal storm surges, seawater is reaching farther inland leading to ecosystem changes and permanent land loss. Increasing demand for coastal infrastructure, on the other hand, has led to considerable amount of land reclamation. As such, future trends in the socioeconomic development in these landscapes will not only determine damage and loss in terms of population and assets but will also provide adaptation responses and sustainable solutions to these challenges. This session will highlight research envisioning a sustainable future for these complex and heterogeneous landscapes.Interdisciplinary research on the evolution of coastal landscapes and predicted future changes are welcome in this session. Research discussing a sustainable vision for these landscapes are strongly encouraged. Research may include, but are not limited to:· Changes in natural and managed coastal landscapes· Future of coastal infrastructure· Coastal hazards and impacts on coastal communities· Sustainable adaptation

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Land-use decisions within the Forestry and Agriculture sectors each have complicated dynamics that influence the achievement of a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Questions around carbon sequestration in biomass and soils, forestry and agricultural rpactices that can be part of “Nature Based Solutions” to climate change, impacts on biodiversity, ability to meet human needs for food and durable products, and much more can benefit from modeling of different scenarios of the future within those sectors. At the same time, the two sectors can have complex interactions that go beyond simple land-use change from one to the other. Modeling these interactions is important and can help develop a better understanding of how these land-use sectors impact a number of both social and environmental SDGs. However, many models primarily represent one sector in great detail. Occasionally impacts on the other sector are presented as outcomes from decisions made within the primary sector being modeled. For example, an agricultural production model might report increases in land-use for the sector that result in deforestation. This session will present work that jointly models the two sectors to highlight both the opportunities for improved understanding but also the challenges and limitations of modeling the two sectors at once. Papers in this session can focus on either methodological developments (e.g. advances in jointly modeling the two sectors or improvements in representing cross-sector impacts for single sector models) or on SDG impacts of joint agriculture/forestry models. We particularly welcome submissions that tie improved modeling to policy-making at multiple scales.

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Organizer(s): Holly Gibbs, Kim Carlson, Robert Heilmayr Expansion of agricultural production for international and large-scale domestic markets has led to massive deforestation and degradation across the tropics. A wide range of public and private sector policies and initiatives have sought to harness these supply chains to address this conservation crisis, but deforestation rates remain persistently high. Nevertheless, there is hope that renewed international pressure, including through the European Union’s Deforestation Regulation, could generate transformative change in rates and patterns of agricultural expansion in rainforest production zones and frontiers. In this session, we will explore the potential pathways for markets and international and domestic policy levers to transform tropical land systems. We will reflect on the last two decades of supply chain initiatives and consider their outcomes across commodities and geographies to identify lessons learned and anticipate their future effects*. We welcome multiple analytical approaches including economic analysis, field surveys, and data science to deeply interrogate how the impacts and role of supply chain initiatives have been influenced by the social, economic, political, institutional, and behavioral conditions, and what this means for the future. *I think it could be fantastic to consider splitting this session into two sessions with one focused on “the State of the World” for these interventions and a second one focused on “Enabling Transformative Change”.

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Offsetting has emerged as one of the most important mechanisms for financing forest management activities around the world. Funds are raised through compensation for carbon emissions or habitat losses and are typically utilized to avoid further deforestation or to incentivize eco-restoration activities. With the volume and size of offsetting expanding substantially in the last five years and poised to grow further, it is an important moment to take stock and reflect on the use of offsetting to govern land use transitions. Understanding the implications of offsetting requires considering the different institutional models for governing offsetting, from voluntary international markets to domestic regulated schemes. Across these models, scholars and practitioners have raised various concerns such as the risks to existing forests, the ecological quality of offset sites, issues of monitoring and accountability, questions of additionality, and the impacts on forest-dependent communities. By convening research on established offset programs such as in India, which has one of the world’s oldest national forest offset schemes, this session fosters a platform where scholars can share and learn from different schemes in order to inform future pathways for sustainable and just forms of land governance.

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Organizer(s): Maria Soledad Andrade-Diaz, A. Sofia Nanni & Jamie Burton Livestock ranching is a dominant land use worldwide, with around 1.5 billion heads of cattle and 1 billion heads of sheep and goats spread across most biomes and a wide range of social-ecological systems. Particularly the expansion of commodity-driven cattle ranching into tropical and subtropical forests and savannas is of major concern in terms of frontier advancement, as well as a driver of biodiversity loss and climate change, but the true nature and dynamics of these changes are poorly understood. Developing and transitioning to more sustainable modes of livestock ranching is urgently needed, particularly in the world's tropical and subtropical forests, but hinges on detailed data and studies on which livestock systems are found. This is important, as different livestock systems differ considerably in the type of forage used, the landscape composition, management practices, infrastructure, and environmental histories, among other properties. They are associated with diverse social benefits (e.g., food security, income) and social transformations (e.g., reshaping of local and regional labour markets, displacement of marginalized people), as well as environmental impacts (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions, vegetation degradation, biodiversity loss). This symposium aims to shed light on new approaches for assessing, mapping, and understanding the spatial patterns, dynamics and outcomes of livestock ranching as a land system. The session will showcase a range of questions, approaches and methods, including spatial analyses of novel datasets, and will bring together cases focusing on various scales, from local landscapes to ecoregion scales. The symposium seeks to bridge gaps between land-system science, rangeland science, and conservation science to foster interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration, and to enhance our understanding of the complex and oftentimes misunderstood livestock ranching systems.

Innovative and Immersive Session

Extralegal activities, such as armed conflicts and illicit economies, are increasingly recognized as drivers of land system dynamics and are among the most pressing challenges for sustainable development and social justice in many regions of the world. Laws and social norms are often suspended under conditions of armed conflict or actively defied through illicit activities, and the two contexts can catalyze or reinforce one another. Whether it is international disputes, internal armed conflicts, criminal violence, or the production or trafficking of illicit crops, land issues are often at the core, and agrarian communities suffer the consequences of these struggles. As researchers, we credit our in-country or community partners, but in many ways our fundamental reliance on them for our research is obscured through the publication process This panel or roundtable discussions with stakeholder participation will center the importance of in-country partners for conducting research in land systems affected by extralegal activities. While transdisciplinary, participatory, or similar co-production approaches have been prominent issues on the Land System Science agenda, more attention is needed to understand the specific challenges associated with conducting land system research with in-country or community partners in extralegal contexts. Relevant topics might include, but are not limited to, land system research approaches to participatory methodologies, personal and professional risk, research ethics, or best practices/lessons learned in the context of extralegal activities. We invite presentations on the above topics from researchers, non-profit organizations, community members, or other stakeholders. The session will also provide an opportunity for dialogue and exchange among the participants, who are invited to share their own experiences and perspectives on this topic.

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This session will focus on addressing the gap between research findings and policy implementation in the context of land-use/cover change (LUCC) studies in Latin America. LUCC presents a dynamic landscape shaped by diverse socio-economic, environmental, and political forces. The region is experiencing rapid transformation, with significant shifts in land-cover types driven by urbanization, agricultural expansion, deforestation, and natural resource extraction. These changes have profound implications for biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate resilience, and socio-economic development. Understanding the drivers, patterns, and impacts of LUCC in Latin America is essential for informed decision-making, sustainable land management, and addressing pressing environmental challenges. Although several national and international funding agencies have sponsored multiple projects over the region, there is a gap between research findings and informing policy, with many studies failing to translate scientific knowledge into actionable recommendations. Bridging this gap requires stronger communication between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. This session will explore strategies for translating scientific knowledge into actionable recommendations and fostering improved communication between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. The session aims to facilitate discussion on the challenges, opportunities, and best practices for bridging this gap to promote more effective and sustainable land-management practices in the region. Some of the questions specific to LUCC and to be addressed include: - How can researchers effectively communicate their findings to policymakers and practitioners in a way that promotes understanding and informs decision-making processes? - What are the key barriers preventing the translation of scientific knowledge into actionable recommendations, and how can these barriers be overcome? - What role can interdisciplinary collaboration play in bridging the gap between research and policy? What are some successful examples of research that has led to the development and implementation of evidence-based policies and interventions? - What mechanisms exist for fostering ongoing dialogue between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners beyond the duration of specific research projects?

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Roundtable discussion with stakeholders from the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force Mexican Member States The climate governance landscape after the Paris Agreement has become more polycentric and sub-national governments and initiatives play an increasingly important role in implementing the international climate policy agenda. The jurisdictional scale in particular has been suggested as a potential sweet spot that is ‘small’ enough for solutions to be adapted to local biophysical and socio-political realities, while being ‘large’ enough to achieve outcomes at scale to contribute to system-wide transformations.Many sub-national governments that are pioneering jurisdictional approaches, such as Mato Grosso in Brazil or East Kalimantan in Indonesia are members of the Governors for Climate and Forests (GCF) Task Force. The GCF Task Force was founded in 2008 by a group of ten governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the United States to address climate change, deforestation, and sustainable development. Today, the 43 member states and provinces cover almost half of the World’s tropical forest and are important drivers for sustainable transformations in their regions. The goal of the GCF Task Force is to harness and support the political leadership of committed Governors in the fight against climate change and deforestation, while empowering civil servants and civil society partners who are critical to building and maintaining successful jurisdictional programs. In this interactive session, we will convene stakeholders from jurisdictional initiatives in Oaxaca and the other Mexican member states of the GCF, including politicians, civil servants, indigenous peoples, and civil society organizations to consider the following questions: How can jurisdictional approaches reconcile the diverging interests and objectives of multiple stakeholder groups? What are the challenges for ensuring the longevity of jurisdictional approaches? What role can academia play in designing, implementing, and learning from jurisdictional approaches to land system governance?

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Facing the increasing complexities brought on by rapid urbanization, socio-economic disparities, climate change, and declining biodiversity, it is crucial to leverage land systems science frameworks and methodologies in the development of resilient urban land systems. A deep understanding of urban land dynamics is essential, as it provides the foundation for informing and guiding local policy and planning decisions towards creating more resilient urban futures. In this interactive session, our goal is to delve into how land system science can shape local planning strategies towards achieving more resilient urban futures, while identifying potential research avenues that could advance these efforts.We will begin with a series of short presentations by researchers and practitioners in the field, setting the stage for an in-depth exploration of the theme. Following the presentations, we will transition into a World Café format, where each presenter will lead a discussion centered around a specific key question within the session's theme. Participants are encouraged to choose the topic that resonates most with their interests, fostering deeper engagement and idea exchange. After these focused discussions, we will reconvene as a larger group to share and explore the various research directions identified by each subgroup. This format encourages sharing of diverse perspectives and collaborative thinking, fostering a multi-dimensional understanding of the challenges and opportunities in integrating land systems science theories and methodologies into local planning for resilient urban futures.Potential questions to guide our discussions could include:How can we achieve inclusive and equitable urban development via land systems science frameworks?How might land system science theories aid in comprehending land-use dynamics at scales relevant to local planning institutions?How can land systems science inform the creation of policy frameworks that support sustainable urban development?

Research Session

In the recent past, a plethora of tree-planting and ecosystem restoration efforts have been initiated around the world with the goal of remaking global landscapes to store more carbon, as well as protect biodiversity and improve rural livelihoods. Ambitious land restoration targets by governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) aim to protect, manage and expand existing tree cover in forests as well as to plant trees outside forests, in places such as farms, savannas, hedgerows, and cities. However there is substantial debate about how these goals can best be accomplished, what their impacts might be and whether serious trade-offs can be avoided. Emerging evidence indicates frequent failures of restoration and tree-planting efforts. In some cases, tree cover gain outside forests accompanies loss of tree cover in forests, indicating potential tradeoffs between trees in different places with different uses, as well as the need for a clearer understanding of what factors facilitate tree cover expansion and influence tradeoffs. In this session, we aim to address this knowledge gap through a series of presentations and a discussion on tree cover change in countries around the world, including India, Nepal, Malawi and Mexico. Our session will shed light on not only changes in the distribution of trees, but also the potential tradeoffs between trees in different locations - within forests and outside of forests on farms and in villages - and between trees that serve different purposes, such as supporting rural livelihoods or biodiversity, and sequestering carbon.

Research Session

Tropical forests and forest lands are being claimed for a myriad of global, national, and local interests. On the ground, plantations for the production of commodities such as timber, rubber and oil palm compete with areas designated for conservation, mining, social forestry and other activities. These represent physical structures of selected interests, with flows of material, finance and ideas intertwined with the establishment and persistence of these structures. The flows through space and time are taking place through networks of actors, institutions, and discourses since colonial times, thereby (re)producing infrastructures of inequality and underlying power relations. The session uses a critical global political economy perspective to analyse inequality related to the globalisation and financialisation of forests, and the underlying flows of material, monetary and ideas that shape, and are shaped by, global forest governance. A critical global political economy perspective is explicitly concerned with those who carry the burdens in global forest and forestland governance and those who are marginalised by decisions over forests and forest lands in the Global South (Brockhaus et al. 2021). Our aim is to identify, together with the audience, pathways that allow to break with the infrastructures of inequality or to overcome obstacles that would halt the machinery of inequality production.

Innovative and Immersive Session

Organizer(s): Kimberly Carlson, Matthew Hayek, Sonali McDermid, David Kanter, James Gerber, Paul West & Carole Dalin How to manage the multiple roles of land in climate action - including mitigation and adaptation - is a central challenge facing humanity. Ideally, climate action will be both effective and equitable, minimizing trade-offs and maximizing co-benefits across a range of sustainable development objectives. Yet, there are major gaps in our understanding of climate actions. For example, the rising prevalence of climate extremes and rapidly changing environmental conditions may constrain realized land-based carbon sequestration, but remain largely unaccounted for in assessed potentials. The existence of possible synergies between carbon storage and certain food production systems and trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation are increasingly acknowledged but large biophysical and socioeconomic uncertainties remain. Additionally, developing large-area renewable energy projects or mining for minerals critical to the clean energy transition may incur socio-economic trade-offs that are unevenly distributed. The goal of this interactive session is to support development of a rigorous and comprehensive framework to evaluate multiple land-based climate action measures across dimensions of effectiveness, co-benefits, and trade-offs. To meet this goal, we will host a large-group dialogue in World Cafe format. After a welcome from session organizers, participants will discuss three questions in small group settings, moving to a new group for each question. At the end of the session, individuals will share insights from their conversations with the larger group. These insights will be recorded graphically and the graphic representation will be displayed for the remainder of the meeting (we hope!) in a public location for all to see. We warmly welcome all interested participants to join our session! This session is meant to complement the Research Presentation Session named Climate Action on Land: Research Presentations.

Innovative and Immersive Session

Organizer(s): David Barklin The session would be organized as a roundtable discussion with the participation of knowledgeable people from different ethnic groups in Mesoamerica. Each of the participants is actively involved in the organization of social, political, productive and environmental activities, promoting strategies to consolidate alternatives for community and environmental well-being. They offer leadership in assuring that their traditional knowledge systems and world-views guide local decision-making and community organization, while also collaborating with others to build alliances on regional, national, and international levels.

Innovative and Immersive Session

Organizer(s): Sophie Avila, Salvador Anta, and Santiago Izquierdo Tort Join us for a pivotal session presented by the Centro Interdisciplinario de Biodiversidad y Ambiente (CeIBA), a key organizing member of GLP’s 5th OSM. In 2023, CeIBA launched its comprehensive report, "Strategic Approaches to Sustainability in Mexico 2024-2030: Towards a Possible Future", which outlines critical environmental strategies for Mexico in the upcoming years across diverse themes including: biodiversity; oceans, coasts and fisheries; climate change; regional development; environmental governance; environmental justice; circular economy; and financing. This session will feature leading members of CeIBA who will highlight essential aspects of the report, such as achieving zero deforestation by 2030, promoting urban sustainability, and pioneering innovative environmental governance models. Following their presentation, the session will transition to an open discussion format, inviting participants to engage deeply with the topics, challenge the proposals, and discuss actionable pathways. This interactive environment is designed to foster a comprehensive dialogue, inviting attendees to contribute their insights and collaborate on refining sustainable practices vital for Mexico’s future. Specific Session Objectives:-To showcase and clarify the primary findings and strategic recommendations of the CeIBA report.-To facilitate a robust dialogue with attendees on the challenges and solutions for sustainable development in Mexico.-To collect a broad spectrum of perspectives, enriching and potentially refining the strategic approaches based on comprehensive stakeholder feedback.

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